BIGGER THAN MY SONG
Choral Chameleon Chorus
Top 100 songs re-imagined for classical choir and remixed for dance
This project was originally due to embrace a set of live performances with dance parties in early May 2020.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been forced to suspend rehearsals, performances/dance parties.
The project:
People's loyalties within popular music are starkly divided. Many academic musicians would refer to much or all of pop music as being uninteresting, unsubstantial, non-compelling, or even wasteful.
The pull of this music, however, becomes stronger and stronger every year as a major player influencing generations of people and the choices that they make in their lives.
Ironically, all music, no matter the context in which it’s found, is made of the same stuff: sound and time.
In society's rush toward criticism, we over-congratulate ourselves daily on being able to publicly state that we know what is of high quality and what is not.
Choral Chameleon dismantles this faulty scaffolding by examining a series of familiar and semi-familiar pop songs through a classical music lens. Each song has been deconstructed and re-assembled in a way that makes its musical virtues shine more brightly. Each piece touts the integrity of the idea behind the song itself, the intellect it took to create that song, and the dignity of its artist.
We had hoped to culminate the live event with a remix of the newly forged works into the world of EDM, complete with dance floor and open bar until the wee hours. The first-ever choral music rave!
Between January and early March 2020, the Chorus was rehearsing 11 brand-new commissioned arrangements of pop and r&b songs made famous by artists such as:
Our commissioned arrangers are:
Did you know?
We were absolutely LOVING working on this project and it will live on in one form or another in the future when the coast is clear.
As you can imagine, we have already spent considerable sums in commissions, rehearsal space and for the time of our professional musicians. Although ticket sales and publicity had not yet begun for these events, please consider making a donation to help us recoup costs to date. It will greatly increase our chance of bringing this great music to life in the months ahead.
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This project was originally due to embrace a set of live performances with dance parties in early May 2020.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have been forced to suspend rehearsals, performances/dance parties.
The project:
People's loyalties within popular music are starkly divided. Many academic musicians would refer to much or all of pop music as being uninteresting, unsubstantial, non-compelling, or even wasteful.
The pull of this music, however, becomes stronger and stronger every year as a major player influencing generations of people and the choices that they make in their lives.
Ironically, all music, no matter the context in which it’s found, is made of the same stuff: sound and time.
In society's rush toward criticism, we over-congratulate ourselves daily on being able to publicly state that we know what is of high quality and what is not.
Choral Chameleon dismantles this faulty scaffolding by examining a series of familiar and semi-familiar pop songs through a classical music lens. Each song has been deconstructed and re-assembled in a way that makes its musical virtues shine more brightly. Each piece touts the integrity of the idea behind the song itself, the intellect it took to create that song, and the dignity of its artist.
We had hoped to culminate the live event with a remix of the newly forged works into the world of EDM, complete with dance floor and open bar until the wee hours. The first-ever choral music rave!
Between January and early March 2020, the Chorus was rehearsing 11 brand-new commissioned arrangements of pop and r&b songs made famous by artists such as:
- Ariana Grande
- Bee Gees
- Calvin Harris & Rihanna
- Gotye
- Hall & Oates
- Mark Morrison
- Miley Cyrus
- Pharrell
- Thelma Houston
- Tomio Okuda
- Toto
- Zedd ft Alessia Cara
Our commissioned arrangers are:
- David Bloom
- Lauren Bydalek
- Paul Doust
- Douglas Geers
- Assaf Gleizner
- Jared Graveley
- Vince Peterson
- Lydia Pugh
- Zachary Ritter
- Derek Weagle
- Eri Yamamoto
Did you know?
- Six of our arrangers are alumni of the Choral Chameleon Summer Institute for Composers and Conductors
- Four of our arrangers sing with Choral Chameleon
We were absolutely LOVING working on this project and it will live on in one form or another in the future when the coast is clear.
As you can imagine, we have already spent considerable sums in commissions, rehearsal space and for the time of our professional musicians. Although ticket sales and publicity had not yet begun for these events, please consider making a donation to help us recoup costs to date. It will greatly increase our chance of bringing this great music to life in the months ahead.
Sign up for our newsletter or follow us in social media to receive the latest information on this project